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By the way, Texas has less than half the criminal alien jail and prison population of California, which has over 100,000 criminal aliens occupying facilities supported by California taxpayers. (For 2009 incarceration numbers for each state, see Appendix III of the 2011 GAO report, here.)

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Its no secret that progressive politicians in hundreds of cities and counties are opposing the Trump administration initiatives to end so-called sanctuary policies. What those politicians never talk about is the fact that those policies continue to allow tens of thousands of criminal aliens to go free instead of facing deportation proceedings as prescribed by federal law.

According to a summary report on sanctuary policies from Federation for American Immigration Reform and numerous media reports, its not just San Francisco, New York and Chicago that are obstructing federal deportation of violent criminals. About 300 local city and county jurisdictions have adopted official policies to refuse cooperation with immigration enforcement in open violation of federal law. And California is not the only place with a statewide sanctuary policy. For a map of principal sanctuary jurisdictions, go here.

You might think that Texas is a state with uniform cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, but you would be wrong. The capital city of Austin recently announced it will defy President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security and the Governor of Texas by continuing its sanctuary policies.

Yes, theres a new sheriff in town, and citizens will soon have new protections if the new federal policies are followed. President Trumps January 25 executive order is only the beginning of the fight, and we can expect the ACLU and other open borders advocates will challenge new enforcement policies in federal courts.

Here is the political reality. Sanctuary policies across the country are an important pillar of the Obama Legacy, so progressives and the leaders of the Democratic Party are not going to abandon that legacy. This commitment by progressives makes immigration enforcement and the end of local sanctuary policies far more of a political issue than in the past.

Until Obamas election in 2008, there were only a handful of sanctuary cities across the nation, but the number skyrocketed after 2008 and now numbers over 300 according to a recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies. A 2016 report by the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Justice found 155 jurisdictions that limit or restrict cooperation with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

But as we said, there is a new sheriff in town and his deputies have been busy.

Trumps January 25 Executive Order was followed on February 20 by a Department of Homeland Security Memorandum titled, Enforcement of the Immigration Laws to Serve the National Interest. It is well worth reading in full.

This directive has many features that have already been welcomed as a breath of fresh air in the ranks of the officers of the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One section of the DHS Memorandum that has been largely overlooked by the media could well serve as a giant spotlight on the devastation in local communities caused by sanctuary policies.

A 2011 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that the typical criminal alien inmate in federal prisons had been arrested 12 times for various offenses. On page 17 that GAO report is a summary of the arrest data for the criminal aliens in state and federal jails:

They were arrested for a total of about 2.9 million offenses, averaging about 12[each] slightly lower than the 13 offenses per criminal alien we reported in 2005.

The Texas DPS report cited above said criminal aliens arrested over that five-year period had been arrested for an average of 2.5 crimes. Taking the average number of crimes committed by ARRESTED criminal aliens as five, and extrapolating from the data on the total number of criminal alien inmates in state and local jails in 2016, the approximately 300,000 criminal aliens in state and local jails are responsible for over 1,500,00 crimes.

In Colorado, the 2,039 criminal aliens in the state prison system in 2016 were 14.7 percent of a prison population of 13,873. The 2016 annual report on the criminal aliens in the Colorado state prison system is here. The 14.7 percent can be easily calculated from the 2,039 inmates in a total prison population of 13,873 found in this document.

This 14.7 percent is over four times the illegal alien population share of total state population, estimated at 200,000 in 2013 by the Pew Hispanic Center.

It is true that even under Obamas lax policies on enforcement and deportations, local ICE offices routinely intercepted criminal alien felons being released from state prisons and deported the most violent among them. But it was a far different story for the thousands of criminals released from LOCAL jails in dozens of sanctuary jurisdictions, where federal ICE detainers were not being honored and violent criminals were routinely released to commit other crimes.

Even the pro-sanctuary Denver Post could not ignore two recent cases where an ICE detainer request was ignored and illegal aliens were released by the Denver jail and then arrested for homicide only weeks later. One case was a hit-and-run accident that left a young woman dead, and the second was a brutal murder at a light rail stop.

Unfortunately, our nations intrepid journalists are not routinely reporting on the thousands of crimes committed by criminal aliens who have been in police custody but then released because of sanctuary policies. It is conceivable that at least a half million serious crimes annually could be prevented if all illegal aliens convicted of felonies were deported and then prevented from returning by effective border controls.

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With two women taking refugein Denver churches in the monthssince Donald Trump was elected president, the city is getting noticed as a place where the revivedsanctuary movement for people in the U.S. illegally has firmly taken root and could soon spread.

Denvers sanctuary cases, involving two mothers of American children, represent a third of all known cases nationwide, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Church World Service. That has promptedone immigration expert to cite Denver as a city on the vanguard of a movement that soon could blossom across the country, especially if the Trump administration continues to hold itshard-line stance.

I would definitely characterize Denver as a hot spot in the sanctuary movement, said Rev. Noel Andersen, a national grassroots faith coordinator with the Church World Service.

The organization, which tracks immigration trends across faith communities, says the number of congregations offering sanctuary to undocumented immigrants has more than doubled to more than 800 nationwide since Trump was elected in November.

Weve been overwhelmed with requests, Andersen said.Theres a lot of fear in the immigrant community.

The movement here, largely limited to a half dozen or so liberal-leaning Unitarian Universalist and Quaker congregations, may soon expand to other faith communities.The United Methodist Church is offering a Sanctuary Churches Training seminar April 1 and 2 in Centennial, during which participants will hear from local immigration-rights advocates, legal professionals and members of the immigrant community about what it means to declare sanctuary.

More congregations are moving into an exploratory stage to see if they can participate in this new sanctuary movement, saidDaniel Klawitter, an admissions representative with the Iliff School of Theology and an ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church. The aggressive rhetoric has spurred folks to take it a little more seriously and to be more pre-emptive.

That rhetoric was an effective tool for Trump during his run for the White House, as the billionaire businessman hit a nerve with many Americans frustrated by illegal immigration. In all, there are an estimated 11 million to 12 million unauthorized immigrants in this country, with 130,000 living in the Denver metro area,according to a Pew Research Center report released last month.

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The presidents position on the issue hasnt softened since taking office, as evidenced by a travel ban he put in place against seven Muslim-majority countries that was almost immediately struck down by a federal judge.The new administration also rewrote immigration enforcement policies that would make any person in the country illegally who is charged with or convicted of any offense, or even suspected of a crime, an enforcement priority. That includes people whose only offense is being in the country illegally.

While the previous administration wasnt shy about deporting people, immigrants whose only violation was being in the country without authorization were generally left alone.

Jennifer Piper, program director for interfaith organizing with the American Friends Service Committee in Denver, said the new presidents approach to immigration and the way peoples humanity was under attack during the presidential campaign is in large part responsible for reviving the sanctuary movement that began 30 years ago to help Central American immigrants, but lost momentum in recent years.

I think the rhetoric from the Trump campaign was the driver for that, she said. It was very visible and very disturbing for people of faith.

Since the election, Piper has received 60 inquiries from Colorado church leaders seeking information about establishing sanctuary space.

I think there will be more people claiming sanctuary over the next year, Piper said.

But not all of the clergy agrees on how the hot-button issue should be handled.

Mark Young, president of the Denver Seminary, said he has seen the debate play out among evangelical leaders who feel the tug of their conservative political ideology and the precepts of a faith that emphasize compassion and forgiveness.

Certainly, there are those who would see deportation as against the teachings of Christ, while others would say that following U.S. law is the moral thing to do, Young said. We have both voices.

Archdiocese of Denver spokeswoman Karna Swanson said in regard to providing sanctuary space, the citys Catholic community hasnt been approached for that type of assistance.

But she said the church, as a matter of its centuries-long mission of showing compassion to the less fortunate, has consistently worked with and assisted those on the margins of society. That includes providing legal assistance and advice on an ongoing basis to the citys heavily Catholic Latino community regardless of citizenship.

We help anyone of any creed, religion and immigration status, Swanson said. We are committed to standing in solidarity with the immigrant community.

Rabbi Joe Black, of Temple Emanuel in Denver, said teachings from the Torah about rendering help to the foreigner in our midst is endemic to being a spiritual, religious Jew.

Blacks own mother came to the U.S. as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Jews have an understanding of the need to support those who are weak and victimized, he said.

Its something weve been asked about and weve talked about (as an organization), Black said.

But so far that hasnt translated to opening then synagogue doors to house people living in the country illegally.

The Colorado Muslim Society has staked out a more direct position on the matter: The states largest Muslim congregation will not risk violating the law in order to shelter someone living in the U.S. illegally.

We do have to follow the law of the land and it is against state and federal regulation to harbor anyone who is in the country illegally, or essentially wanted by authorities, said Iman Jodeh, a spokeswoman for the South Parker Road mosque. So the Colorado Muslim Society would not be a place of sanctuary.

Thats as it should be, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the conservative nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies. With 4 million people on the waiting list for a green card, she said, its unfair to give refuge and assistance to those who entered the country by breaking the law.

Churches that wade into this need to be very careful, Vaughan said. Its one thing to show support for someone in a difficult situation, but its quite another thing to condone behavior that is illegal and that, in the aggregate, has an adverse effect on many Americans in terms of jobs and crime.

Churches, she said, risk running afoul of the nations laws against harboring a criminal.

Religious buildings fall under a sensitive locations policy with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that characterizes houses of worship, schools and hospitals as places to generally be avoided when it comes to taking enforcement actions.But the new administration could abandon that policy whenever it wants.

Alarm bells went off among immigration-rights advocates in February, when ICE agents arrested two people across the street from a church in Alexandria, Va. The action prompted questions from Virginia Gov. Terry McAulifee and a sharp rebuke from U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, who was Hillary Clintons running mate.

We are hearing some words, the Virginia Democrat told The Associated Press this month, but the words arent matching up with what people are seeing.

For now, the sanctuary movement in Denver is centered on Christian communities that have aless hierarchical organizational structure. In addition to the First Unitarian Society, which is hostingJeanette Vizguerra,who first came to the United States from Mexico 20 years ago, Mountain View Friends Meeting in Denver late last yearopened its doors to Ingrid Encalada Latorre, a Peruvian woman in the country illegally since 2000.

Both churches are members of the Metro Denver Sanctuary Coalition and are the only buildings in the metro area willing to accommodate long-term guests. The coalition, formed in 2014, hasfive other Unitarian churches that serve as supporting congregations.

Mountain View Friends member David Poundstone said his church is careful to avoid the charge of harboring a criminal by making Latorres presence in the church wellknown.

Were actually trying to make a very public statement that says, A person is here, he said. We are not harboring anybody.

Latorre is supported by a network of 30 volunteers who run laundry for her, bring her groceries, care for her children and sleep over at the south Denver church as an added measure of security. But sequestering oneself to a single location for weeks on end is a difficult thing to do and, Poundstone said, may explain why there hasnt been an explosion of people seeking sanctuary across the country.

Its not the best way for everybody, he said. Its not easy living inside a church building and not going out.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) Law enforcementupgraded charges in a deadly accident in Columbia County this week. Columbia County Sheriffs Office reportedJuan Jesus Castillo-Reyes is now facing 1st degree vehicular homicide, upgraded from 2nd degree. And hes also now facing reckless driving charges along with driving with an expired license and driving to fast for conditions. The sheriffs office said Castillo-Reyes was the driver of the truck that rear ended Alexander Earles on I-20 in a construction zone on Tuesday, causing a four car pile up. Earles died in the crash.

As we learn more about the charges Castillo-Reyes faces, we wanted to dig deeper into why an undocumented person in the CSRA might continue to live with that status.

A lot of conversations on social media about the I-20 accident and Castillo-Reyes points to him being undocumented and possibly and illegal immigrant. While Immigration and Customs Enforcement has its eye on him, it is simply too early to know if he is an illegal immigrant, but we wanted to ask the tough question; Why stay that way if you are?

NewsChannel 6s Renetta DuBose shared the initial story with local Human Rights Advocate Ed Acevedo.

I agree. If he was in the wrong, he was in the wrong.

Illegal immigrants wont get any sympathy from Acevedo. If they are here doing wrong. But we wanted to know, why isnt becoming an American citizen a priority over finding work and over paying the bills.

Its basically fear, Acevedo told us.

Its a fear, Acevedo said, that comes from the government.

You have to understand, what Im doing is good for the United States, its also going to be good for Mexico, U.S. President Donald Trump told media in recent news.

We shared with Acevedo the recent story of Juan Castillo-Reyes. Though Castillo-Reyes immigration status is unknown, we do know hes from Mexico and on an ICE hold after being charged with a felony in the death of 23-year-old Alexander Earles, an airman.

He was struck in an accident and when I say an accident I dont think Mr. Castillo did this on purpose. He just didnt decide Im going to go slam into somebody and try to kill a couple of folks, he explained of the incident.

Several NewsChannel 6 viewers called out Castillo-Reyes as an illegal immigrant. We dont know that for sure, but we wanted to continue the conversation. Why isnt immigration a priority for people who are undocumented?

Most of these folks dont believe in the system right now. Its the same system that is telling them yeah come over here and well process you some papers for maybe the dreamers, but once you get there, ICE is here.

The past two decades in the CSRA have kept Acevedo busy passionately advocating for those working in the shadows of immigration illegally climbing their way to citizenship.

For them, prioritizing is pleasing the boss to get the job done. Whatever it takes. It doesnt matter about my health. It doesnt matter if I have quality time with my family, said Acevedo while painting a picture of the illegal immigrant worker in the U.S.

While many people are still plowing through immigration work in the U.S., Acevedo said those employers taking advantage of the labor should also fight to make the legalization process better.

We see a lot the folks that are against immigrants or illegal immigrants giving them jobs in the dark world that are paying them a misery.

Castillo Reyes has no bond right now in the Columbia County Detention Center and it could stay that way. If bond is assigned and someone post his bond, CCSO will contact ICE, who would make sure he does not go free. ICE waits until the case is disposed of beforedeportation happens.

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Spencer Platt/Getty Images NEW YORK - APRIL 27: A member of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) keeps watch over a rally in support of illegal immigrants on April 27, 2010 outside of Federal Plaza in New York City. Following the state of Arizona's passage of a new immigration law which requires individuals suspected of being illegal immigrants to show proof of legal residence when asked by law enforcement, immigration supporters have been protesting across the country. The law has become increasingly divisive with Mexico's president issuing a travel warning to Mexican citizens in Arizona. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)(Photo: ~File photo)

In the tiny conference room of a Flemington community center, more than a dozen mothers, some with infants in their arms, sat at a table passing around copies of a legal document Helen Ramirez described as "la carta poder."

Ramirez, an immigration attorney based in Newark, wasreferring to a power of attorney" document. The women watched as Ramirez, working with them pro bono, explained how assigning power of attorney lets unauthorized immigrants assign a caregiver for their child without losing custody in the event they are detained and deported without their children.

As President Donald Trump works to deliver on his promise to deport unauthorized immigrants, many across the country are exploring legal protections to make sure their children aren't abandoned or taken in by the state.

"They're scared of their children winding up adopted by a stranger and then having no control over it,"Ramirez said.

Of the estimated 11.1 million immigrants living illegally in the United States, nearly 4 million have children in the United States.A study of child population from 2009-13 from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank,states that more than 168,000 children in New Jersey have parents who are unauthorized immigrants9 percent of thetotal child population in the state.

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Michele Alcalde, an immigration attorney based in Red Bank, who has advised undocumented immigrants in Asbury Park, Deal and other Shore towns, tells her clients "you have to be a saint nowadays."

She said one client, who immigrated illegally from Honduras 15 years ago, was arrested in February at his residencein Ocean Township by ICE agents who were looking for another target. They didn't find the suspect, but they did learn that the single father had a moving violation and a summons alleging he was driving without a license.

Alcalde says her client is a single father, but his sister was able to step in and care for the child. Other undocumented immigrants who don't have spouses or siblings to care for their children have been reaching out to extended relatives and close friends, especially those with legal status, Alcalde said.

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, is skeptical that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would deport unauthorized immigrants without giving them the option to take their kids with them. He says parents should leave with their kids, and anyone who doesn't is being neglectful.

"I think there's something frankly wrong with any parents that would abandon their children and leave them in the United States when they go back to their home countries," he said.

An ICE official responding to anemail from the Asbury Park Pressabout their detainment and deportation processstated, "ICE makes custody determinations consistent with controlling law and precedential legal decisions on an individualized basis considering the unique facts of each case.Among other factors, ICE may consider whether the individual is a parent or legal guardian of a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, or the primary care taker of any minor."

In the event families are separated, several immigration lawyers interviewed by the Press said they advised their clients to follow an "emergency plan" released by the Rutgers University Child Advocacy Clinic.See the emergency plan and power of attorney document below:

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The plan advises parents to assign power of attorney to a relative or close friend, making them a temporary caregiver without relinquishing custody. The plan also notes that even undocumented immigrants have the right to demand to see a warrant when police show up at their door. It goes on to recommend they make copies of their tax returns and other documents and set aside moneyfor their children if they are separated.

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Eleana, 23, attended the legal advice session Ramirez held at the Harvest Family Success Centeron Park Avenue in Flemington. She came to the U.S. alone from Honduras in 2013. Today, she has a 2-year-old daughter with her boyfriend, also an undocumented immigrant from Honduras. She was considering assigning power of attorney to her child's paternal grandmother, a legal resident.

"I think it'd be better if she went to live with me ... but it's tough because the country I came from has a lot of economic and public safety challenges. The violence is at its peak," saidEleana, who declined to be identified by her full name for fear of being targeted for deportation.

Eleanaattended a year of college in Honduras, one of the poorest nations in Latin America, and as recently as 2014, was the murder capital of the world. She fled because she couldn't find workand she felt unsafe.

When she arrived in Hunterdon County, she worked a series of jobs until finding regular work as a babysitter.

They planned to raise their daughter in Hunterdon County, where she would live in a safe neighborhood and go to a decent school. Now, the plan is just to extend their stay as long as they can. If they both get deported, Eleana said she wants her daughter's grandmother to put the child on a plane to Honduras to be reunited with her parents.

"You're trying to improve your life and provide your kids a better life," she told a reporter in Spanish. "Now you're in limbo with your kids because parents have to go to work. Kids are afraid because they don't know if their parents will return home at the end of the day."

In states such as California and Massachusetts, unauthorized immigrants with children can leave a close friend or relative in charge of their children without relinquishing custody by filling out a caregiver's authorization affidavit.

New Jersey doesn't recognize the caregiver's authorization affidavit. Until recently, the Garden State didn't appear to offer an equivalent document. But Randi Mandelbaum, a law professor at Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, and a team of lawyers drafted an emergency plan earlier this year. The plan which includes the"power of attorney" document for child custody matters, was disseminatedvia email to immigration lawyers across New Jersey like Ramirez.

Von Spakovsky believes the lawyers and advocates warning families that they could be separated are exaggerating.

"These advocates want to scare people as much as possible because they believe it helps them politically to oppose our immigration law and the president's policies," he said. "I think these advocates are doing a disservice to these aliens and they're doing it for political purposes."

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John Leschak,an immigration and family lawyer in Freehold, says Trump's rhetoric about immigrants has sparked a level of fear across the country that at times may be unfounded. He finds it unlikely that both parents in a family would be detained and deported or that it would be as common as some think it would be.

But he also believes unauthorized immigrants are right to make family emergency plans. In fact, he says, they should go beyond assigning power of attorney because there's no guarantee it would be enforceable, though other lawyers say the document likely will be honored by schools and state agencies.

Mandelbaum submitted the power of attorney document she drafted to the Department of Child Protection and Permanency and is waiting to hear if the agency will honor the document.

Leschak recommends parents use aguide prepared by the Appleseed Network, an advocacy group with law centers in the U.S. and Mexico. At 108 pages, it covers everything frombreaking a lease on an apartment to designating power of attorney for a child to filing joint taxes with a spouse even after being deported.

"I don't think you should ever just rely on that piece of paper," Leschak said. "Reality is more complicated than that. I would recommend parents have a more comprehensive plan."

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FACT Magazine reports that Italian alt-rock band Soviet Soviet was arrested and deported by U.S. immigration officials this week, shortly after they landed in Seattle on their way to a performance at this years SXSW. The band wrote a long statement describing their ordeal on Facebook, but the members were apparently detained because their entry to the country was perceived as illegal immigration.

To be clear, the bands arrest doesnt seem to have anything to do with the soon-to-be-removed deportation clause in the standard SXSW contract, the one thats had a number of musicians protesting the festival for what some had seen as strong-arm tactics. Instead, officials appear to have thought that the band was performing for cashnot just the short promotional tour that their documentation statedand arrested them for attempting to work in America without a visa. (In the agents defense, its not like the country isnt absolutely overrun at the moment with well-respected Italian gothic rock bands who slipped under ICEs radar. Its basically an epidemic.)

Immediately upon landing, the bands three members were detained at customs and interrogated separately for four hours, before ultimately being told that they were being deported. First, though, they were handcuffed, searched, and locked up for a night in jail, without being given the chance to notify their management, loved ones, or SXSW itself. They didnt get their phones back until authorities were ready to load them on a plane back to Italy, which appears to have finally come as something as a relief. We were relieved to fly back home and distance ourselves from that violent, stressful and humiliating situation, the band members wrote in the aftermath of their aborted trip. You can read the full Facebook statement below.

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